page_title: Wilco (farm supply cooperative)
hierarchical_section_title: Wilco (farm supply cooperative)
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of the Wilco farm store in McMinnville, Oregon.
context_page_description: Wilco is a farmer-owned farm supply cooperative dating back to the 1930s based in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon. 30 years later, in 1967 Santiam Farmers Co-op merged with 4 other co-ops, the Mt. Angel Farmers Union Warehouse, the Donald Farmers Co-op, the Valley Farmers Co-op in Silverton, and the Canby Cooperative to form "Wilco Farmers Coop". The name "Wilco" comes from a shortening of "Willamette Consolidated".
  The cooperative has four divisions — Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, an ag business division that provides customers with crop protection products and fertilizers, a fuels division for commercial petroleum, lubricants, and residential propane delivery and the farm store division.
  Today, the farmer-owned cooperative operates 20 retail farm stores throughout Oregon and western Washington with plans to reach 22 locations on the West Coast by expanding to California in 2020-21. The retailer carries a wide range of hardware supplies alongside land, lawn, garden, livestock, and pet-related products and services.
  The farmer-owned cooperative's headquarters are in Mt. Angel. Hazelnut Growers of Oregon processing plant and headquarters are based in Donald.
context_section_description: Wilco is a farmer-owned farm supply cooperative dating back to the 1930s (Santiam Farmers Co-op) based in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon. 30 years later, in 1967 Santiam Farmers Co-op merged with 4 other co-ops, the Mt. Angel Farmers Union Warehouse, the Donald Farmers Co-op, the Valley Farmers Co-op in Silverton, and the Canby Cooperative to form "Wilco Farmers Coop". The name "Wilco" comes from a shortening of "Willamette Consolidated". 
  The cooperative has four divisions — Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, an ag business division that provides customers with crop protection products and fertilizers (Valley Agronomics), a fuels division for commercial petroleum, lubricants, and residential propane delivery and the farm store division. 
  Today, the farmer-owned cooperative operates 20 retail farm stores throughout Oregon and western Washington with plans to reach 22 locations on the West Coast by expanding to California in 2020-21. The retailer carries a wide range of hardware supplies alongside land, lawn, garden, livestock, and pet-related products and services. 
  The farmer-owned cooperative's headquarters are in Mt. Angel. Hazelnut Growers of Oregon processing plant and headquarters are based in Donald. 
  In 2011, Wilco launched a program to support local FFA, called FFA Forever, collecting donations from vendors, employees, and customers. As of 2019, the program had collected more than 1 million dollars to benefit the Oregon and Washington FFA Associations.
caption: Wilco store in McMinnville, Oregon
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